Improvement in tobacco-cutters



G. w. CAMPBELL.

Tobacco-Gutters.

N0 148 594 Patented M arch17.1874.

TFT-emu l meifm; @W5/WW? @l Wneaee 1 e" wf i STATES GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, OF PENDLETON, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. ll, dated March 17, 1874; applicc tion filed May 1G, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, of Pendleton, county of Madison, State of Indiana, have invented certain Improvements in Tobacco-Cutters, of which the followin g is a specication rIhe object of my invention is to provide for a cheaper and more effective tobacco-cutter than those heretofore known or used for cutting plug tobacco in any desired equal lengths. My invention consists in certain details of constructiomfirst described and afterward pointed out in the claim.

In order more fully to describe my invention I refer to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specication.

Figure I is a side view of a tobacco-cutter embodying my invention. Fig. II is a sectional view through line :l: in Fig. I.

The saine letters refer to like parts.

A is the board. B is a standard, to which the cutter-bar C is pivoted at d. D is the knife, riveted to the cutter-bar. E is a guide for the cutter-bar. F is a standard, to which the lever II is pivoted at j. The lever has an eccentric head, K, which rests on the cutter-bar, and is connected with the cutter-bar by a movable wire joint, L. The standard F has a groove, g, as shown in Fig. II. IWI is a slot in the board A, into which the knife passes. One side of the board, at n, is higher than the other side, at 0, Fig. II. P is the rule, hinged at R, Fig. II.

The edge of the knife does not strike the board after cutting the tobacco, but passes into a slot, the sides of which are so close together as to make a clean cut of the plug. On the side where the piece is out off the Outer portion of the base is lower, and allows the piece being cut to drop down as the blade cuts, and prevents it from hugging the blade, as it does with cutters now in use. The end of the cutter-bar and the end of the knife-blade and lever work so closely in the slot in the standard that there is no chance for twisting, and the cutis straight and clean. Attached to the side ofthe standard, by means of a hingejoint, is a rule, graduated as an ordinarypocketrule, by which plugs may be cut of any desired uniform length. The hingejoint allows the rule to be folded up against the stand ard when not required for use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- The improved tobacco cutter herein described, having a pivoted upper cutter, operated by the short arm of a lever through a link-connection, an articulated gage, and an elevated cutter-base, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE W. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

J OsHUA P. JAMES, IsAAO S. BROWN. 

